AEC

AEC (After Effects Contest) is a monthly contest were designers receive a c4d file and a theme and have to make an intro using the cinema 4d file. The catch is that the designers must follow the theme given.

Month 1 - Future Bass

 * 1) DatMX
 * 2) Aerume
 * 3) Jerry Kuijper
 * 4) PicAniTutorials (ReconFX)
 * 5) Lophix

Month 2 - Mashup

 * 1) Aerume
 * 2) OstrichFX
 * 3) Mojo
 * 4) DatMX
 * 5) DarqArts

Month 3 - Original Sync

 * 1) WazeyFX
 * 2) DatMX
 * 3) Mojo
 * 4) FinnyMotions
 * 5) Zerume

Honorable Mentions

 * Muntintin
 * PlowFX
 * RDesigns
 * STREAMZ
 * Zerume*
 * DragoniteFX

* Zerume made 4 entries, one of them being placed and another getting honorable mentions.

Month 4 - Trap

 * 1) Baloek
 * 2) zenu
 * 3) Defency
 * 4) Mojo
 * 5) DatMX

During month 4, viewers believed that most people on the list did not deserve to be placed because they did not follow the theme, because of C4D changes, and because of being famous. Many viewers requested for C4D changes to be removed.

Month 5 - White/Colorful Background

 * 1) ThatGamerGuy/TriniGamerGuy
 * 2) RowfeyVFX
 * 3) RDesigns
 * 4) quantium
 * 5) Zerume

Honorable Mentions

 * Brimax
 * TigerArtz
 * KornyFX
 * SeRuVaTi
 * Tenchy
 * DatMX
 * Rich.

In Month 5, the AEC team announced that C4D changes would be removed for future months.

Month 6 - Any Style

 * 1) arrg pvp
 * 2) Defency
 * 3) Mojo
 * 4) rayman renders
 * 5) ThunderFX

Honorable Mentions

 * ProfessorEffect
 * DatMX
 * ReconFX
 * BadArtz
 * SpectralFX

Month 6 sparked arguments throughout the viewers about how the results were not fair. Viewers expected CheesyVFX, jP Artz, and Muntintin to get placed and everybody disliked that arrg pvp was placed in first.

Month 7 - Glitch

 * 1) RDesigns
 * 2) DatMX
 * 3) Defency
 * 4) HawksFX
 * 5) MellerFlash

Honorable Mentions

 * SnipzieFX
 * SinceArtz
 * TrailsArtz
 * ThunderFX
 * Fuze It
 * CoatArts
 * aerox

Month 8 - #OldSchoolSong
Results out on 10/31/2015